This is an analysis of the poem The Halted Moment that begins with:
Wha hasna turn'd inby a sunny street
And fund alang its length nae folk were there; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101100101 1110011101 1101110011 1101110101 1001000101 0101010101 11010011110 1110010111 11011101011 1101011100 1111000001 110101100 1101110100 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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